Because it’s quarter past 5 am once again and that’s apparently my Voldemort time. I get emotional about Voldemort and the adorable way he hates everyone.
I dislike (downright hate) how some authors portray Voldemort as a “stupid hypocrite” because of his anti-muggle campaign and how he promotes blood purity. Not mentioning any fics or authors because I’m not saying this to start wars, but in some fics Death Eaters desert the Dark Lord because of Harry pointing out that “hey the dude is a half-blood”.
I don’t think the Death Eaters would believe Harry, tbh. But I digress. My main issue is with the keywords “stupid” and “hypocrite”.
As I see it, Voldemort doesn’t give a fuck about purebloods OR muggleborns. He’s just a fuckign smart man who knows what to say to make the powerful and rich people (most of whom just happen to be purebloods) side with him. He chose to glorify the plood purity issue because by doing so he would gain valuable followers.
He doesn’t believe in the cause, and not just because he’s the best example of how wrong it is. He believes in magic, admits the superiority of bloodline-bound magical abilities (like Parseltongue), but he does not believe that an average pureblood wizard is more capable than an average halfblood/muggleborn wizard.
Voldemort is brilliant and brutal and sharp. I once said that if Grindelwald is a bored sociopath, then Voldemort is an angry psychopath. That’s the thing: Voldemort is angry. He was treated unfairly as a kid and if you have an inflated sense of self-importance, the anger you feel then will stick with you for a long time. Even more so if you’re obsessive about being superior to everyone else.
When Tom started studying at Hogwarts he realized that magic or no magic, he was STILL superior to everyone else. And yet yo can bet yo ass that he was treated with prejudice in Slytherin. He was subjected to the kind of prejudice he ended up using to his advantage. He saw how things worked there and learned what to do or say to get which kinda reaction out of the other people. He learned to manipulate.
To me, Voldemort is the most real character in the HP world. He’s also the most misunderstood because so many don’t seem to understand that at the core, the whole agenda of blood supermacy and causing all those wars and battles within the Wizarding World was just a ruse to give him what he wanted. Voldemort didn’t seek to reform the world, like he made his followers believe. He wanted to destroy it as much as he could. He wanted people to be miserable and sad and in pain. He just wanted to punish everyone else for existing.
(ITTR SPOILER, SKIP THE PARAGRAPH TO AVOID IT)
There are a lot of fics where Harry travels back in time to prevent Voldemort from happening, and a lot of those fics portray the young Tom Riddle as an innocent child. Someone who can love. A child who needs guidance. But people, there’s so much more than murder in being a psychopath. Most psychopaths don’t even ever get around to killing anyone. You can prevent a psychopath from killing people, but you can’t prevent a psychopath from being a psychopath. And personally I think that if Harry would try to make Tom “good”, the best thing he can do is simply redirect Tom’s focus into something like politics or business where he can be a calculating, manipulative asshole who kills just a few individuals rather than the massmurders he ended up ordering.
Like, you can’t completely neutralize someone like Tom, but you can do damage control.
Also I love Voldemort’s sense of humour. His dry wit and him just being a sarcastic asshole.
OK I’M DONE FOR NOW. But it’s just… this is the Voldemor that I see. He doesn’t love in the way other people understand love. He gets obsessed and fixated, AND I SAID I’M DONE FOR NOW. Yep. I’m done. For now.
marlowfication 